I Still Care

Chapter 4: Making Plans

Katara pov

When I went to school the next day like usual I walked the halls before home room. I met Toph at her locker and told her about my message from Zuko.

"He really told you all that?" She asked crossing her arms over her chest.

"Yes he said he still cares about me and my family and he wants to come see me this weekend" Suki, Sokka's girlfriend came walking up as I spoke to toph.

"He who...Hi Katara, Hi Toph" She said skipping over to us, wearing her cheerleading uniform.

"Zuko, he is a kid I have known since I was like four. He messaged me on facebook and told me that he smokes, he is in legal trouble, and he really misses me. He wants to see me this weekend." I told her

"Cool, is he hot?" She asked

"SUKI!?" I said

"What? It's just a question so is he?" She said with a smile on her face.

"Okay, yes he is hot...very hot" I told her putting my hand on my chest.

"I think he is trouble, Tara" Toph said chiming in

"Why?" I said looking at her as if she had two heads.

"I know your not going to listen to me, but he smokes and you don't know exactly what kind of legal trouble he is in. He could beat you for all you know" Toph said

"No...he would never...I know he has changed, but not that much." I told her

Toph shook her head and walked away as the bell rang for our first class. For some reason that day I kept writing Zuko's name, over and over again. I did not know why but I kept getting distracted and wondering about his reply to my message. I kept hoping he would come up this weekend.

After School, I rushed home trying to get Sokka to hurry up. I pushed through the door and yelled a quick hello to Gran gran who was in the living room yelling at the tv as she watched some sporting event. The computer seemed to take extra long today to power up. I tapped my fingers and hummed to myself to hide my impatience. Facebook took even longer to load and when it did, I saw I had one message in my inbox:

=p thx thx a lot I needed to hear that from u....umm my cell is (555)-345-7890 call me tomorrow around 4 thats when I'll have my phone..oh and I'll try my mom doesn't want to give me a ride but maybe u and ur bro can come up and chyll with me in the old town for the day u know what im saying it'll be chylled as hell....

I did not want to wait until tomorrow. I wanted to talk to him as now, this messaging stuff was weighing heavily on my patience. I was looking forward to hearing his voice though. I hoped tomorrow would hurry up and come already. Sokka came walking into the room eating an apple, "So I was talking to Zuko on facebook" He said

"About what?" I said a little scared about his answer

"Nothing, mostly about the legal trouble. Apparently he beat up a security guard and a principle. He lives in a residential home, Katara. That means he is own by the government until he is eighteen." He told me giving me a funny look.

"So, he made a few bad choices that does not mean he will do anything to hurt me. Besides he wants you and me to go down and see him on Saturday" I said back to him. He just shook his head and left the room, taking his food with him.

I typed down my reply before clicking out and going to complete some of the homework I had:

Yeah I will talk to my Dad about coming down, or I can ask Gran gran to take us down! Tht would be awesome! So I hear my brother was buggin u!! LOL I am super tired from school today, I had to play flag football n I was the only girl on my team who knew how to play, mostly thanx to Sokka!! It was funny! Ugh gotta go do my homework! TTYL Katara